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otherlink

otherlink noun: a nonhuman or fictionkin-like identity willingly adopted by an individual, distinguished from otherkin and fictionkin by being a voluntary identity, instead of a labeled but involuntary experience.

Noun

otherlink (plural otherlinks)

  1. A nonhuman or fictionkin-like identity willingly adopted by an individual, distinguished from otherkin and fictionkin by being a voluntary identity, instead of a labeled but involuntary experience.
    • There’s no way to objectively know if a particular alterhuman individual is actually an otherkin, otherkith, or otherlink. As with matters of gender identity, they have to be taken at their word—sometimes quite literally: it might be a word you've never heard before.2023, Phil Illy, “Autosexuality Beyond Gender”, in Autoheterosexual: Attracted to Being the Other Sex, Houndstooth Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 447

Forms of otherlink

pluralotherlinks

Questions about otherlink

What does otherlink mean?
Otherlink means a nonhuman or fictionkin-like identity willingly adopted by an individual, distinguished from otherkin and fictionkin by being a voluntary identity, instead of a labeled but involuntary experience.
What part of speech is otherlink?
Otherlink is a noun.
What is the plural of otherlink?
The plural of otherlink is otherlinks.

Words near otherlink in the dictionary

  1. otherkith
  2. otherlandish
  3. otherliness
  4. otherling
  5. otherlings
  6. otherlink
  7. otherlinks
  8. otherly
  9. otherly abled
  10. othermother
  11. othermothers

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